I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.